Supercomputing is a Disruptive Technology
My Facebook posting on 30 August 2011.

I consider supercomputing a "disruptive technology."
[Excuse buzz-phrase usage.] My guess is hurricane Irene
would have been significantly more disruptive without
the informatics computed by supercomputers.
When I discuss the topic of supercomputing, inevitably the
first question I'm asked is "Why?" When it happened last week
Thursday in the Intro. to CS class, I was able to start my
answer with "Irene."

My Facebook posting on 29 August 2011.

I displayed this list during the CSC100 class and it made me mad.
Top 5 supercomputers in the world: #1 Japan, #2 China, #3 U.S.,
#4 China, #5 Japan. Rewind to June 02008... top 5 supercomputers
in the world: #1 U.S., #2 U.S., #3 U.S., #4 U.S., #5 U.S.

Ken Jennings: My Puny Human Brain
"I envisioned myself as the Great Carbon-Based Hope against a
new generation of thinking machines--which, if Hollywood is to be
believed, will inevitably run amok, build unstoppable robot shells,
and destroy us all." -- Ken Jennings

What Can Watson Do For Water Management?
"Over the last century, global water usage has increased at twice
the rate of population growth, impacting society across the board from
public health to economics to energy consumption. Obviously, this supply
and demand ratio isn't sustainable, and big changes in the way we manage
this precious resource are an imperative." -- A Smarter Planet Blog

Larry Page: AI Will Be Solved By Brute Force
"My prediction is that when AI happens, its going to be a lot of
computation and not so much clever blackboard/whiteboard kind of stuff
-- clever algorithms -- but just a LOT of computation." -- Larry Page

Blood-Flow Research At The Petascale
"High-performance computing makes realistic modeling of vascular
and hematological diseases, from a whole organ down to protein-level
representation of red blood cells, a possibility." -- George
Karniadakis, mathematician at Brown University

About the Grid Utilitarian
The Grid Utilitarian is a blog
devoted to high-performance computing. This includes
grid-based utility computing and 21st century Informatics.
This blog was created on 3 October 2004 and it started 2011
with 233 postings.